The annual Cherry Festival is the longest running festival in South Africa. The cherries are harvested from October to December and the festival is heldIt is held in November each year. It stretches over 3 days and attracts up to 30,000 people. The festival presents quality family shows and activities like the herding of sheep, horse rides, camel rides, helicopter flips, steam train rides at Sandstone Estate, tours through town to see the beautiful sandstone building architecture which Ficksburg is also very well known for.